Memorial Day DUI Arrests in Miami

Memorial Day DUI Arrests in Miami

Posted By
Jonathan Blecher, P.A.

The Memorial Day holiday weekend makes us think of barbeques with friends
and family, high school and college graduations, and for locals, “Urban
Beach Week,” which means parties and hip-hop concerts across South
Beach. What’s not to love about this weekend?

The three-day Memorial Day holiday weekend means there will be plenty of
alcohol flowing, so it’s no wonder why the national holiday is associated
with an uptick in drunk driving from Miami to Los Angeles.

As Americans make plans to celebrate the three-day weekend, law enforcement
across the nation is preparing to increase its
DUI enforcement efforts starting Friday, May 27th through Monday, May 30th, and you can bet that cops throughout Miami-Dade County are doing the same.

If you’re planning on partying this weekend, I highly recommend staying
put as you celebrate, designating a sober driver, or calling Uber, Lyft or a cab.

Urban Beach Week 2016

Local law enforcement expects a large crowd this Memorial Day weekend in
South Beach. To keep everybody safe during Urban Beach Week, officials
will be creating a traffic loop, closing off Ocean Drive to motor vehicles.
There will also be hundreds of police officers on patrol.

Unlike 2015, there will not be DUI checkpoints in South Beach during Urban
Beach Week, but police will be patrolling the streets for drunk drivers, the
Miami Herald reported.

With a high turnout anticipated this year, there will be a large police
presence on the Beach. To prepare for the huge crowds, around 500 officers
will be deployed, all from various departments throughout Miami-Dade County.

DUI Saturation Patrols in Miami

Even though there are no DUI checkpoints scheduled for South Beach this
holiday weekend, you can be confident that Miami Beach Police Department
traffic enforcement units will be on the lookout for drunk drivers throughout the city.

In fact, Miami Beach PD will be deploying highly trained DUI/DRE (drug
recognition expert) officers to seek out and detain drunk or drugged drivers
this Memorial Day weekend, so be sure
not to drink and drive.

After the city’s
DUI arrests plummeted in recent years, the department secured a $100,000 grant from
the Florida Department of Transportation to help MBPD improve its DUI
enforcement efforts. According to the
Miami New Times, MBPD hopes that it will increase its DUI arrests by 7 percent in the
next few years.

I recommend that you drink responsibly this Memorial Day weekend holiday,
but if you are arrested for DUI, don’t hesitate to
contact my firm for an aggressive DUI defense with a top-rated DUI attorney!